MENASHA – The University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley's Barlow Planetarium, in partnership with several local astronomy enthusiasts, will host "Will There Ever Be Another Earth?" at 7 p.m. Sept. 5 at the UWFV campus on Midway Road.

The program will be presented by Maggie Turnbull, an internationally known astrobiologist whose expertise is identifying star and planetary systems that are capable of supporting life. Turnbull will discuss what it means to think about habitable planets orbiting other stars, the latest results in the search for those planets and her work with NASA in designing a new kind of observatory to detect Earth-like worlds.

Turnbull was named in Wired magazine's "Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world," and runs the Global Science Institute from her home in Antigo.

The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are necessary due to limited seating and can be made by contacting Alan Peche at alan.peche@uwc.edu or 920-832-2852. For more information, visit www.barlowplanetarium.org.